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Anyone else catch this last night?
A pretty decent documentary, with a few good live performance (shown in their entirety), but like most all music related shows, the editing was ridiculous.
I quite literally got dizzy watching it. Who ever edited this is/was a world class idiot, obviously suffering from a severe case of ADD. I don't think there was one camera shot in any of the live performance segments that lasted longer than 1 second.
If there are folks out there that enjoy this kind of production, I would like to meet them so they explain to me WHY.
The concerts were obviously filmed in a planned way with multiple camera locations. There was soooo much potential here. Why it had to be trashed in the editing room will remain a mystery. What I would give for access to the raw footage.
OK, enough venting. What was good about the show? The audio of the live tracks was NOT mucked with, so you get to hear some real chestnuts live, live Toys in the Attic and Back in the Saddle. Of course, you also need to wade through Jaded and Cryin' but that's the price of admission, I guess.
And the in-studio stuff while they were tracking Bobo is pretty cool, too.
If I was not of the opinion that Aerosmith is the best hard rock band known to man, I may not have slugged through the whole 2 hours, but for a fan, its a "must see". Crappy, MTV style editing not withstanding.
BGL
A pretty decent documentary, with a few good live performance (shown in their entirety), but like most all music related shows, the editing was ridiculous.
I quite literally got dizzy watching it. Who ever edited this is/was a world class idiot, obviously suffering from a severe case of ADD. I don't think there was one camera shot in any of the live performance segments that lasted longer than 1 second.
If there are folks out there that enjoy this kind of production, I would like to meet them so they explain to me WHY.
The concerts were obviously filmed in a planned way with multiple camera locations. There was soooo much potential here. Why it had to be trashed in the editing room will remain a mystery. What I would give for access to the raw footage.
OK, enough venting. What was good about the show? The audio of the live tracks was NOT mucked with, so you get to hear some real chestnuts live, live Toys in the Attic and Back in the Saddle. Of course, you also need to wade through Jaded and Cryin' but that's the price of admission, I guess.
And the in-studio stuff while they were tracking Bobo is pretty cool, too.
If I was not of the opinion that Aerosmith is the best hard rock band known to man, I may not have slugged through the whole 2 hours, but for a fan, its a "must see". Crappy, MTV style editing not withstanding.
BGL